Katherine E. Sobering

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Academic Blog

• Sobering, K.E. (2020). Watercooler Democracy: How Rumors Can Democratize Information at Work. https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/watercooler-democracy-how-rumors-can-democratize-information-at-work-guest-post-by-katie-sobering/
• Sobering, K.E. (2019). Can Workplaces Foster Equality?. Official blog of the American Sociological Association. http://www.wipsociology.org/2019/12/19/can-workplaces-foster-equality/
• Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2019). Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins. University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies. https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/larr/collusion-and-cynicism-urban-margins

Artwork

• LaFleur, L., Sobering, K.E. (2023). ’They Can’t Steal My Joy’ (2022) / The Queer Birth Project. Rejoinder. (8) https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder-webjournal/issue-8-textual-sexual-spiritual/614-the-queer-birth-project-and-they-can-t-steal-my-joy

Book

• Sobering, K.E. (2022). The People's Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina. 251. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-peoples-hotel
• Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2021). Entre Narcos y Policías. Las Relaciones Clandestinas entre el Estado y el Delito, y su Impacto Violento en la Vida de las Personas. 224. Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno Editores. https://sigloxxieditores.com.ar/libro/entre-narcos-y-policias/
• Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2019). The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Book Chapter

• Sobering, K., Auyero, J. (2024). Alberto: Service Work and Social Change in Argentina. Portraits of Latin America: Twelve Stories of Hope and Hardship. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328996/
• Sobering, K.E. (2021). The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment at Work. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy). 73 Bingley, Emerald.
• Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2015). Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry. 162-183. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press.

Book Review

• Sobering, K. (2022). Workers’ Self-management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión. Socialism and Democracy. https://doi-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/10.1080/08854300.2021.1981078
• Sobering, K. (2021). Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador by Erynn Masi de Casanova. Contemporary Sociology. 5 (2) 138-140. SAGE. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4AUGMZVQNHGANFAGAXXS/full
• Sobering, K.E. (2018). Review of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and Augstín Laó-Montes. Humanity & Society. 42 (3) 389-391.

Journal Article

• Mumtaz, M., Roscigno, V., Sobering, K. (2024). Gendered Employment Precarity and Refugee Resettlement in the United States. Sociological Quarterly. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380253.2024.2377382
• Stitt, M., Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2024). Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets. Social Problems. https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article/doi/10.1093/socpro/spae035/7693014?login=true&utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=socpro&utm_medium=email
• Stitt, M., Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2024). The Clandestine Hands of the State: Dissecting Police Collusion in the Drug Trade. Social Forces. https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sf/soae024/7610584
• Perez, M., Sobering, K. (2023). The Persistent Influence of December 2001: Collective Action in Twenty-First Century Argentina. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 42 (3) 323-340.
• Scarborough, W.J., Sobering, K.E., Kwon, R., Mumtaz, M. (2023). The Costs of Occupational Gender Segregation in High-Tech Growth and Productivity Across U.S. Local Labor Markets. Socio-Economic Review. https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ser/mwab036/6318727?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Sobering, K.E., Lapegna, P. (2023). Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires. Social Problems. 70 (1) 126-142. https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spab014/6324475
• Sobering, K.E. (2021). Working for Justice in Argentina. Contexts. 20 (1) 52-57. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504221997870
• Sobering, K. (2021). Survival Finance and the Politics of Equal Pay. The British Journal of Sociology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12832
• Sobering, K.E. (2019). The Relational Production of Workplace Equality: the Case of Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Argentina. Qualitative Sociology. 42 (4) 543-565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-019-09434-y
• Sobering, K.E. (2019). Watercooler Democracy: Rumors and Transparency in a Cooperative Workplace. Work and Occupations. 44 (4) 411-440. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0730888419860176
• Sobering, K.E., Auyero, J. (2019). Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins. Latin American Research Review. 54 (1) 222-236.
• Sobering, K.E. (2017). Violence, the State, and the Poor: A View from the South. Sociological Forum. 32 (S1) 1018-1031. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12362
• Sobering, K.E. (2016). Producing and Reducing Gender Inequality in a Worker-Recovered Cooperative. Sociological Quarterly. 57 (1) 129-151. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tsq.12112
• Sobering, K.E. (2015). Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses’. Sociology Compass. 9 (5) 412-421.
• Sobering, K.E., Thomas, J., Williams, C.L. (2014). Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses. Sociology Compass. 8 (22) 1242-1255. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12208

Newsletter

• Sobering, K.E. (2018). Equality Projects in Argentine Worker-Recuperated Businesses. 40 (1) 18-20. Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section. http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/on-the-disorganization-of-democracy
• Sobering, K.E., Bariola, N., Auyero, J. (2018). Program Profile: UT-Austin’s Urban Ethnography Lab. 30 (1) Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. https://asaculturesection.org/2018/03/19/culture-program-profile-ut-austins-urban-ethnography-lab/

Research Report

• Sobering, K., Scarborough, W.J., Kwon, R.C., Mumtaz, M. (2021). Can Gender Equality Spur Tech Growth?. Gender Policy Report. University of Minnesota. https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/can-gender-equality-spur-tech-growth/
• Sobering, K., Auyero, J. (2019). Narcops: How Police and Drug Dealers Collude in Argentina. Other. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/narcops-how-police-and-drug-dealers-collude-in-argentina/

Scholarly Preface

• Perez, M., Sobering, K. (2023). Introduction to Special Issue on ‘The Contentious Legacy of Argentina’s Great Crisis: Social Mobilization in the 20 Years after December 2001'. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 42 (3) 323-340. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/10.1111/blar.13352

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Sobering, K., "Faculty Fellowship Program," sponsored by UNT Initiative for the Advancement of the Arts, University of North Texas, $18000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Sobering, K.E., "Graduate Continuing Fellowship," sponsored by University of Texas at Austin, Other, $40052 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
• Sobering, K.E., "U.S. Student Award to Argentina," sponsored by Fulbright Commissoin, Federal, $10650 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
• Sobering, K., "U.S. Student Award to Argentina," sponsored by Fulbright Commissoin, Federal, Funded. (2014 - 2015).

Grant - Research

• LaFleur, L., Sobering, K., "Research Seed Grant," sponsored by Division of Research and Innovation, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
• Sobering, K., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," sponsored by UNT College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $4619 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Sobering, K.E., "Dissertation Research Improvement Grant," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $3698 Funded. (2015 - 2016).
• Sobering, K., "Dissertation Research Improvement Grant," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2015 - 2016).